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Containers are mostly understood via docker which, up until version 1.9, did not use user namespaces at all. This leads to all sorts of wild assertions about "security problems" with Containers. This talk will remedy that by explaining what namespaces are, how they are used and how to set up unprivileged Containers with the user namespace. Since namespaces are little understood, we'll begin with the history of namespaces, how they work, the difference between label and mapping namespaces and finally how all namespaces interact with user namespaces and how user namespaces can be used both to deprivilege root and give an ordinary user a container they can enter with an unprivileged root. We'll use build Containers as a demonstration of the latter

James Bottomley is a Distinguished Engineer at IBM Research where he works on Cloud and Container technology. He is also Linux Kernel maintainer of the SCSI subsystem. He has been a Director on the Board of the Linux Foundation and Chair of its Technical Advisory Board. He went to university at Cambridge for both his undergraduate and doctoral degrees after which he joined AT&T Bell labs to work on Distributed Lock Manager technology for... Read More →